College basketball powers Kansas, Illinois to play exhibition benefiting Maui fire relief efforts

The Kansas and Illinois men’s basketball teams are set to play a charity exhibition game benefiting relief efforts for the devastating Maui wildfires, the schools announced Friday. The game, which had originally been planned as a closed scrimmage, will be played on Oct. 29 at the State Farm Center in Champaign, Ill., at noon Hawaii time. It will be televised nationally on the Big Ten Network. Both the Jayhawks and Illini are frequent visitors to the Valley Isle as participants in the Maui Jim Maui Invitational. Kansas has made the...